Burglary (stealing or attempting to steal- in dwelling).....?

Question

What does this mean?
Is it that you have stolen from where you are living or where you reside???

confused.com!!

fateridder.... or anyone else thats wondering.

It wasn't personally ME that stole, I do have morals you know!
It's gonna sound way too complicated this time of night, to explain and make sense.

But my neighbour (who, bless her is not all there was broken into a few months back, she is convinced, probably due to her schizophrenia that it was the guy who lives upstairs to her that did it)
She came round today to "prove" to me it was him, by showing me the metropolitan police letter she recieved, saying that he had been prosecuted and was sentenced to 17 months imprisonment, of which he has served 42 days.
My point is, i live in a bedsit with a 5year old and I am looking for a case to push my move through quicker...
I didn't recognize the guy who has been prosecuted name, as some-one who lives next door to me, but they have renound (sp) homeless people living next door with them.
I am hoping that it means my move will be quicker if I feel unsafe.
Make sense? probably not!!

Answer 1

No, it has nothing to do with where you are living -unless you're the victim! If you live with someone else, and steal something of theirs, that's simple or aggravated theft. If you tresspass into someone else's home, that's breaking and entering, even if you didn't actually break anything. If, while there, you touched something, then the breaking and entering can be upped to burglary. There's different classes of burglary as well, depending on the severity. Then there's attempted burglary, where you got caught before you could actually get your hands on anything. In dwelling is just a classifier, so the courts know whether it was a home, store, warehouse, or whatever. So, if you were charged with burglary, then apparently you got caught with the goods. If the charge is indeed stealing or attempting to steal, then the cops aren't really sure if you got the goods or not -or there may not be enough evidence to support actual theft, but it's still written that way on the charge. It'll depend on the judge to sort this one out.

Addendum:
With your additional details, about the only thing I can add is, if the perpetrator lives upstairs or next door to the vicitm's residence, it's still breaking and entering, as well as burglary. In multiple-housing, each unit is considered a separate dwelling or home, as far as the police are concerned. You could live in a rooming house, and entering the next room would be breaking and entering. He knew he was not in his own home, and was taking what wasn't his.

Okay, we also know now that it wasn't you! No hard feelings, but we can't be sure when somebody asks, that it's really not them they are asking about!

Answer 2

It means that a person either attempted to steal or has stolen from an occupied structure. This means that the chances were extremely likely that when he either attempted to break in or did break into this home(dwelling) that there was a high probability that someone would be home at the time. This is why it is much more serious than simply breaking into a garage or a business. Hope I didn't make this more confusing. Good Luck.

Answer 3

Are you serious? It's hars to believe that you wouldn't know that! First, let's go back to the beginning of civilization. Imagine there is a tribe who lives on a ramote island in the middle of the ocean and has never heard of "religion". Now imagine that a man's son is murdered by the man's enemy. Do you seriously think there would be no punishment for that? In those days, the man would probably have gotten away with killing the man who killed his son. But as times progressed, people's MOTIVES for killing began to be based on things such as greed and power. Pretty soon, all motives for taking the life of another were outlawed except in self- defense. Also consider this: you can't give away your neighbor's house because you don;t own it, right? You don't have the right to take someone else's life: their dreams, their hopes, their chances of falling in love, their opportunity to reach their potential and develop their talents, their family- because it is not yours for the taking. The court system developed because Person A kills Person B If it is FUNDAMENTALLY not ok to take a life then it can't be allowed for PERSON A to be killed in revenge. But PERSON A needs to be punished or put where he cannot hurt anyone else, etc.... ************************************ Stealing: again, it is not yours for the taking. Plus it means taht the person has to spend time and money to replace the stolen items, if they can be replaced at all. If nothing else it just boils down to: you would not want others to steal from you. **************************************... Arson, come on, you don;t know why burning someone's house down is illegal? **************************************... Basically, most of the laws deal with issues that HURT other people. You should be asking why there are laws against doing things that only hurt the person doing it, like prostitution and drugs.

Answer 4

Some now call this home invasion.

It generally means you enter a place someone regularly sleeps/lives with the intent to commit a crime therein like larceny for instance. This is a very serious crime. A lower grade of burglary involves entering a building that is not a permanent residence.

If you just stole from where you live that would just be plain larceny.

Answer 5

Burglary involves breaking into a building to steal something (in some places that building has to be a place where someone lives, as opposed to an office building or some other sort.)

It is distinguished from robbery and other forms of theft, whcih take place on the street, or in other places, or don't involve breaking into a house.

Answer 6

To enter the dwelling of another with the intent to commit a crime therein. To break means to cross over the threshold - One does not have to break in one can simply crawl through an open window - reach into an open window or you an object to reach in and steal something. To break - to cross the threshold. This is burglary.

In some states it requires a night time entry in others it can be day or night.

Answer 7

In the UK if you enter a dwelling that is not your own, or a room in a dweling that is not your own (ie if you are a lodger) for the pruposes of:
stealing
causing damage
causing injury
then you are a burglar. If you enter the property for one of the first 2 and cause/threaten injury then you are an aggravated burglar, as you are if you enter carrying a weapon.

Answer 8

Crime is a fact of life everywhere. Burglary does not have to be in one's home; if someone steals from McDonalds it is a burglary. You can tell the people that there have been recent burglaries in your building and you feel unsafe, but I don't believe that is going to make the wheels turn faster.

Answer 9

It means stealing form inside someone's home. In the eye's of the law it's worse than if you steel something from a store or like a bike from an outside bikerack.

Answer 10

Stole from where you are living/reside???? How does one steal from them self ?
Is that what you meant?
Burglary is the unlawful entrance with intent to commit a theft/ steal valuable property.
Hope this helps